"Bedazzled": Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation - 'Bedazzled' (1967)
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- Bedazzled is a 1967 British comedy film directed and produced by Stanley Donen. It was written by and stars Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a comic retelling of the Faust legend, set in the Swinging London of the 1960s. The Devil (Peter Cook) offers an unhappy young man (Moore) seven wishes in return for his soul, but twists the spirit of the wishes to frustrate the man's hopes.
In the third wish, Stanley is a rock star, singing out passionately for affection. However, his fame is short lived, and is usurped by a newcomer called "Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation" (George) who sings drably about his disinterest in anyone except himself. Margaret is a vapid and excitable groupie. Probably a parody of the British Psychedelia movement and artists like Syd Barrett.
“You fill me with inertia.”
Possibly one of the best lines in a pop song ever.
In college I knew a brilliant but somewhat dour physicist. Watched this movie with him and the inertia line just killed him. He laughed uproariously and often brought it up later.
This song is an underrated masterpiece
The music written by Dudley Moore himself!
Truth!
💜
They killing those dance move tho
Loved it then --- love it now.
When Moore's singing "Love Me" with way too much desperation, Bron's screaming like he's a Beatle, but during Cook's utterly aloof performance, she's _mesmerized_ . This scene's the highlight of the movie.
Thus, the modus operandi of the devil himself!!
A bit of an in joke since Bron’s a major player in Help!
"You fill me with inertia" is the best song lyric ever. I'm going to embroider it on something someday.
you fill me with inertia
_Don't get excited..._
'I'm not available' - the antithesis of the pop persona xD
Bowie must have seen this movie a few times :-)
just go away *blows raspberry*
Its too much effort, Dont you ever leave off :)
My favorite part of a classic film. The contrast between Dudley Moore's desperate pleas in his song "LOVE ME!" to this is genius.
Utterly fantastic.
The Pet Shop Boys clearly were influenced by this brilliant parody.
Thanks for posting it.
I thought the same
Along with 'The Party' (1967) starring Peter Sellers, 'Bedazzled' is one of my very favourite films of all time. I'm fortunate to own the soundtrack album for this film and the music (written by Dudley Moore) is brilliant. It really captures the mood of the 1960s era. Right, I'm going off out now to buy ten bottles of Froony Green Eyewash.
This and The Party are two of my favorites as well!
Moore's music reminds me alot of Burt Bacharach's music...it really captures the feeling of the "Swinging 60s"
Pick me up a Frobisher & Gleason Strawberry-flavored Ice Lolly, would you? There's a good chap....
Same here--- The Party and Bedazzled. I bought 2 DVDs of both years ago -- in case I wore one out. 😂
Can you tell me, who played actually all the instruments? Did Dudley himself pluck this devilishly infectious bass line?
"I'm self-contained" 😂😂😂
yes you are and its boring.....
@@bbnnmm9 woah, you really got me there! Great job. I bet your mom's really proud
Don't bother
Peter was never more attractive.
I liked him better with a mustache, but then I never really fancied him from the get go.
The greatest music video of all time.
Agree !
Love it. Look at those 1960s video transitions! Everybody thought that was so cool all the way up into the 1980s. And it was it was a miracle of video production compared to motion picture film.
“I’m self contained”. “Don’t you ever leave off?” 😆
I'm not available...
Love this film. Perfect.
This scene is awesome.
Priceless. A brilliant film. Even Woody Allen's fine writing couldn't match these two. A shocked and bemused Dudley Moore after thinking he's finally won his unrequited love's heart only to be tricked by Cook's Devil once again is great comedy acting but eclipsed by the peerless Cook.
One of my top ten favorite movies of all time. I could watch it many times and never get tired of it.
The script is not only witty, but very wise, pretty good combination really. Moore's score, made up as it is from its recurring rearranged main motif, fits it like a glove...
Almost. It is a little repetitive. Charlie Parker got around this.
I've seen Bedazzled dozens of times, and I STILL catch something new each time that I hadn't caught before! It was years before I got the line "What rotten sins I have working for me....I suppose it's the wages"...ie The wages of sin! Lol
I’ve watched it so many times through the years. Still is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I stumbled across this movie on TH-cam a couple days ago and now I'm obsessed with this song.
This may well be my favorite two minutes of cinema EVER.
I wish 'Drimble' and the gang had done a few singles and albums and even a couple of tours. But somehow I really don't think he could be bothered.
Such a witty and funny movie, a great scene here, true classic, wish they still made them this way.
Just watched the movie. Had to find this song, it's the best!!!
* Unintentional parody of Noel Harrison's singing (talking lyrics) style, original rapper perhaps! ☺
I have the DVD. Watched it for many years. The dancers are gorgeous, one is particularly Incredible.
That'll be Sandy Sarjeant..
I love this movie I first seen it on TV when I was about 10. It captures that part of the sixties perfectly. I don't know how it did at the box office. A lot of sixties films, TV shows, were seen as being experimental, but I think this movie passes the test of time.
This "I dont want you, I don't need you, leave me alone" attitude remind me of the '90's reluctant Rock stars which made them even more alluring.
The ultimate ode to every unavailable dude, ever.
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All these girls are going crazy over him and he doesn't give a shit! Hilarious.
Saw them in concert at Great Woods Mansfield (Mass) back in 1977.
Very witty social satire on human weakness and temptations.....hilariously scripted! Genius!
I don't hear much about temptations, but rather a satire of the resisting. Resisting temptation is in its own way ridiculous, insofar as the thing is a pretender.
I can't say that I was ever a big fan of either of Peter Cook or Dudley Moore - but I have always had a fond spot for this film, and in my opinion, it's their finest hour. Also directed by the late Stanley Donen as well.
I LOVE this movie and know it by heart. It's very quotable, but there's only one other person I know that would get which movie it is I'm quoting is from.
Also... Peter Cook was fine af in this movie. He did indeed look like a devilish angel 😈😇
This is an amazing song. Dudley plays a great jazz version with a bass and drums on TH-cam somewhere
Peter Cook has got to be one of the fucking SEXIEST British men EVER!!!.... He had STUNNING features/an ELEGANT/GRACEFUL tall slender physique and UNMATCHED fucking TALENT!!!.... I remember first watching Bedazzled on TV when I was about 6 years old back in 1975 and being completely RIVETED watching this clip right here!!!... I couldn't believe how FASCINATED I became by "British culture" because of my "exposure" to this ICONIC film!!!... I usually "credit" the "beginning" of my ANGLOPHILIA to another British LEGEND= David Bowie ( which "coincidentally" I had also watched for the very FIRST time on "Soul Train" that same year: 1975... ) I think both watching "Bedazzled" with Peter Cook and "Soul Train" with David Bowie got into my fucking SUBCONSCIOUS at such a very "young age" and turned me into an ANGLOPHILE!!!... 90% of the music I've been into since the 80's is "British Post Punk & Dark/Minimal/New Wave" and I think Peter Cook may have been "indirectly/unknowingly" INSPIRING such MIND BLOWING "genre" 12 years ahead of its time by this very music clip right here!!!.... If that's NOT fucking GENIUS I don't know what is!!!...
I am a fellow Anglophile- chiefly taken w/ British comedy, music & literature.
Aged three-- listened to/watched Hey Jude. Fell in love w/ Paul McCartney for a short while. The Beatles were the catalyst for my love affair with '60s & 70s & 80s British culture.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore were a recent discovery. I am infatuated. Python, The Young Ones, The Goodies, Beyond the Fringe, Marty Feldman, At The The 1948 show, Do Not Adjust Your Set, How to Irritate People, Bottom, Absolutely Fabulous, etc, etc. Genius.
Bowie built his entire career on this ;-)
For such a "small nation" the Brits are like fucking MASTERS when it comes to all the "music genres/styles" they've given to the rest of the world!!!.... When it comes to British "comedy/satire" I truly believe that Peter Cook is like the fucking EMPEROR!!!... So MAGNETIC and CHARISMATIC!!!....
@@petermurphreak
An indisputable fact.
He is terrific.
& Dudley Moore.
@@petermurphreak a 'small nation' of 66 Million people ;-_
One of my favourites. I love this film and especially this part with the singing.
I have Always loved Dudley Moore, may he Rest in Peace. Such a talented man and sadly died of an awful disease.
It is interesting that I just discovered a Twilight Zone (American tv show)
It's an Episode from 1963 titled "Of late I think of Cliffordville"
which is before either of the Bedazzled movies.
In the Twilight Zone episode
A cut throat business man makes a deal with the devil, who's is played by a seductive attractive woman, the business man wants to go back in time so he can make millions and he lists all the things that he wants and the devil grants all the things to him. The difference is his motive to enter into the contract isn't because of a love interest like the movie but money.
But Of course there are things he forgot and he wasn't specific enough for the devil, just like the film he is duped more than once and things fall apart for him.
It isn't exactly the same but same concept and there are definitely some similarities between the Twilight Zone episode and the Bedazzled movie.
Both are takes on the Faust story
@@lovfro Oh, thank you! Forgive my ignorance I didn't know that. I'm not familiar with the Faust story. But upon you mentioning it I just looked it up online.
So it is by Goethe? I will look for it to read.
I love to learn new things even at my age. Nearly 60. 😉
We never stop learning.
Thank you. I hope you have a good day. 😊
The best Arthur Brown song Arthur Brown never wrote...
I have towatchthis every year-it never gets old!
I can't help thinking of David Bowie when I see this even though Bowie's style is quite different, I think he enjoyed being mysterious and unreachable.
One of my favourite movies too and only shown on Aussie TV once in about 1989.
I agree. I thought of Bowie too.
This is so brilliantly written and so beautifully shot…
Worst thing is --- they are all deceased. Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Eleanor Bron, all 3 of The Breakaways. (the 3 dancers) I’d like to find a teeny tiny break in the fabric of reality, slip through and somehow find myself in the front row of that audience. One can dream.
Eleanor Bron isnt dead 23/07/22
@Chester: Oh, thank you. I thought I read that years ago. My mistake.
R.I.P Stanley Donen
more than a bit of 1960s scott walker in this. I think that is who Peter is sending up. Private Eye magazine also had Scott in Pseudo corner a few times in later life.
Spot on! and Bowie was Walker's biggest fan :-)
This is one of my favorite songs 😂
They always have the "raspberry" at the end. I also really like the "Fly on the Wall" "wish" scene in the Mortuary (Morgue) too.
Do you mean Dudley falling down? I suspected it had something to do with the plot. If it is a raspberry, I would like to know why, so I could condemn it.
It was a plot device. He blows the raspberry to reset the scene...like Dorothy clicking her heels...
The most psychedelic comedy masterpiece Stanley Donen ever directed
What a lot of people don't realize now is how PROPHETIC this was. This was years before The Thin White Duke, Kraftwerk, shoegaze, Dream Syndicate, Eno, Morrisey etc. Now it just seems that Pete was taking the mick out of those kinds of bands, but they didn't exist yet. Who dreamed things would actually GO that way !
"Don't you EVER leave off ??"
I've always said Peter basically invents new wave here, a decade before the fact. The robotic alienation is pure Gary Numan
Cold Cold Song!!! I Love It!!! 😀🙏❤
Great film overall and great music performances, much better than the remake - they had no idea what they were doing...
Yes the remake is, for the most part, embarrassing. It's mean-spirited, and poor Elizabeth Hurley is utterly out of her depth as an actor. But they did have a good idea for the ending, since the ending of the original film is the weakest part of it.
The ending is just brilliant... it literally asks that you to look around, Mephistopheles just won.
The remake was an utter insult to this amazing movie. How far off point were they???
Soundtrack is awesome ( I have on lp) but does sadly omit the traffic warden piece, which is so cool and really showcases Dudley’s skill on the ivories.
I seen that movie when I was 22 and that song stuck in my head for a lot of years. And was the first thing I looked up on the internet
Haha Eleanor Bron's expression is priceless!!
Dudley Moore gave to the world his gift of true comedy, laughs, lovable characters and brilliant music. He didn’t deserve -- no one does - to get ill -- no longer be able to write, play music and act. Really cruel and torturous way to go.
Stanleys song is LOVE ME where he begs to be loved but the Devils song tells everyone he is not interested in them , and therefore IRRESISTIBLE.
I crack up every time I watch this.
Brilliant! I love this movie.
I have read that Malcolm McLaren knew Peter Cook and took John Lydon round to take notes viz. his disdainful interview technique which Cook could be known to use when not impressed with someone and that glassy stare which is in ample evidence here...
I believe he also complained that they drank all his booze. Lol.
My favourite song ever, from the best movie 🤟🏼
Love this film!!
Good to see the Devil's; "self-contained"...
Eleanor Bron was so gorgeous back then!♥️
Lol that’s my personal theme song. This is why I’m dressing up as a devil for Halloween because this movie inspired me. 🤣🤣
He's the opposite of an incel. He's a volcel.
Filmed in the Ready Steady Go studio if I am not mistaken.
I'm not available-then he is swarmed.
great song from a truly brilliant movie (avoid the 2000 remake!)
I no longer disrespect the original movie by watching a remake. It’s just a waste of time.
This song is a big mood
Acaba de salir en España una boografia de Stanley Donen,wue compraré semana proxima,Donen fue el mejor director pop del cine,lo admiro
A perfect example of what is known as the 'Don't give a **** attitude' and how it attracts women. Some men go their whole lives without learning this secret.
--- and the “Don’t give a $hit” attitude by women that had men crawling on their hands and knees. Being and or “playing” unobtainable was part of the game. “Easy” women --- had a man --- but their man was drooling at the unobtainable. Lived it -- watched it. Felt sorry for my girlfriends who were easy. They really missed the fun of living the game.
I never did it in a calculated way, but the difference in the reaction you get playing it cool and casual versus desperate is night and day
Era il 38 luglio e facevo molto caldo...
This song inspired the birth of a famous and successful Italian band called Squallor
Remember watching this scene as a kid, within moments turning to my mother saying, "Well, Dudley's really messed it up this time"
He never stood a chance against Drimble Wedge.
Ah - the 60s. The best of everything good.
Them dancing girls shimming and shaking are pretty awesome as well
Subtle self confidence displayed. It’s magnetic love curiosity.
very very good......................
this song is awesome!! haha fun movie
OMG . Gary Numan predicted a decade in advance . Such presciense . Cook a flippin' genius .
Sometimes Spoof songs are better than the thing they’re spoofing!
Funniest shit I ever saw. actually the movie was fun and touching in a way.
The film is a great social and political satire, plays better now than when it was written. It's amazing how good the script was, and that final scene is both funny and darkly prescient.
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This is the best musical comedy scene ever recorded, and a great fuckin' song in its own right
Era il 38 Luglio... E faceva molto caldo...
Best song ever!!!!
Peter Cook truly comedy gold. Especially with Dud, shush a great comedy team.
The acme of Cook's acting skills.
"You move me to inertia"
Kenneth Meltsner it's
"you fill me with inertia"
That's what I heard, too. So powerful, it's almost like a lawnmower.
Utterly brilliant.
You fill me with inertia
It's much better to watch the performances back to back to understand the contrast between Paul McCartney and Jim Morrison uh I mean Stanley and George. 😎
So this is where the Pet Shop Boys got their idea from?
This track along with Hard Fi, s 'Better do Better' are the two best songs when it comes to showing an ex the door. Lol
Fantastic.
Ah, I have always seen Cook's character's name spelled as Trimble Wedge and the Vegetations. I could be wrong. This song was indeed totally proto-punk.
It boiled Lou Reed's (much overrated) solo career down to one song! The line
"you fill me with inertia...I don't care" is a crack up. Only a wit like Peter Cook could think to get such a preposterous line into a song.
Watched the original for the first time literally minutes ago ... coincidentally, on the same day that the director, Mr. Stanley Donen, passed away exactly one year ago. Interesting omen.
Oh yeah, and I'm not watching the remake, which I've just discovered lel
“You fill me with inertia”…😈
"don't you ever leave off"
Eleanor Bron. Gorgeous ❤️
Sandy Sarjeant, middle dancer!
Far superior to the remake. End of discussion.
There is no discussion!
The remake shouldn't have happened at all
No discussion. Was that actually a remake? No similarity. No humor.
I happen to disagree. I think they are both good movies. In some ways, the original is better, but if it’s superior, I wouldn’t consider it FAR superior. I think the remake was a good effort.
My personal theme song.
Why the hell isn't this on Blu-Ray in the US yet? This beats the hell out of the Harold Ramis one anyday!
It was released by Twilight Time on Blu-ray back in 2015. The company closed up shop and the disc is currently out of print, but you can still find copies around if you look hard enough. Be prepared to pay more than usual, however.
took me many many viewings to realise the whole thing is 'so you said'
LOVE it!!
I would be interested in who produced this and who engineered.
The Flanging sound is amazing.
yes
The Small Faces had what is thought to be the first tape flanging whooshing sound in 1966 on Itchycoo Park. That single was self produced, but Glyn Johns, their engineer, learned the trick from George Chkiantz, so it may have been one of them.
great dancers too